Monthly Archives: August 2014

A while back I dressed up as a cosplaying JRR Tolkien as part of an awesome multi-art Literary Roast of sacred cow authors. It was a pretty rad time. On 9/15 we do it all again and this time I’ll become…Cormac McCarthy!!!

This Tuesday 8/19 is Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s birthday. He left an indelible mark on pop culture by creating a fictional universe that celebrated the majesty of the cosmos and the heights that vastly different groups of people could reach if they could only put their differences behind them…and there was Vulcan nerve pinching too!

This Tuesday also marks the first birthday of this crazy little show in a crazy little-er vinyl record shop. That’s right, it’s been one whole year of monthly laughs, verse, and assorted other pleasantly cramped shenanigans at It Just Got Weirdo: A Wordy Evening @ Weirdo Records!

Please join us for what’s sure to be an incredible show featuring some of our favorite performers from the first year of this series, it’s been one wild ride to the stars so far!

1st thing: Favorite Robin Williams moment: 1992 – Aladdin opening night, genie’s line “10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!” Don’t know why, but I was rolling with laughter, don’t know why, but 2 decades later I still chuckle. He hit so many greater heights than that, but I’ll have that one forever. Rest in peace to one of the very best.

I’m deeply saddened by what precipitated the discussion, but some other performers and I talked to the Boston Globe about comedy, comics, & mental health.

I couldn’t think of a better writer with which to wrap up my recent blog series for the Missouri Review. Every other week I chose a famous writer (poetry or prose, living or dead) and curated/commented on the “perfect playlist” for picking them up from the airport. It was a total blast making mixes for some of my all-time favorites such as Margaret Atwood, W.G. Sebald, James Baldwin, & Philip K. Dick. Links to all 1o playlists can be found here.